Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-10-06
Something About the village
at the Foot Of the
Spanish Peaks.
Finest Place i'm the Mountains
For q Summer Home.


one Of the most extensive in Colorado,
and in point Of natural resources 1t is
also one of the foremost in the state.
And Of all the towns in that country
Of which anything is expected in the
Immediate future La Veta has by far
the brightest outlook. La Vesa Is
comparatively new town. Its eAis-
tence dates back only to the Let OF No.
vember 1876. From its inception
down to about FIVE years ago 1t en-
loved an unwonted degree Of prosper
ity. With the advent Of hard times
and business depression in 1852 La
yeta. like all other towns in Colorado,
nausea in her onward strides and, up
to six months ago, occupied herself IN
maintaining what she had already
gained, without attempting any further
forward movement. During the last
three or four months, however, it has
taken on new life and has received an
impetus which will undoubtedly make 1t
CITY of four or five thousand inhablt'
ants within the next three years, as 1t
has greater advantages, both as sum-
mer and winter town, than any other
place within radius of fifty miles,
and there are very few towns in Colo
RADIO which surpass it in either respect
Its winters are Of about three months
duration, but they are not severe. The
thermometer seldom goes below zero,
and when it does it seldom remains
there but a short time. The snow falls
occasionally and the slc,ghing will con-
tinue at times for four or five days to-
gether. But for the most part during
the winter months the air is sharp, dry
and bracing, and the sun genial and
warm during the day while the nights
are bright, clear and cold. The soil is
of such character that it is always
easy getting about as there is no mud
and the roads are always in fine con-
dition. Fuel is exceedingly cheap and
can be had for the taking, as there is
plenty of cedar and pinon on the noun
cain sides six miles distant, and four or
five fine veins of excellent coal within
space of from one to FIVE miles from
town.
As a summer place it is, taken all in
all, unsurpassed in the whole Rocky
Mountain region. 1t has an abundance
of the finest mountain water; it has
sulphur springs, whose medicinal vir-
tues are, for certain diseases, such as
rheumatism and other disorders Of the
blood, unrivalled anywhere. 1t is at
an elevation of about s, 900 feet. Its
days are never hot and sultry and its
nights are always cool and pleasant.
Its atmosphere is at once soothing and
cxhilarating. 1t has fine agricultural
country around it, several hundred
miles in area. In the Office of the La We.
ia Town and Improvement Company
they show you specimens by the dozen
OF oats, corn, wheat, alfalfa, timothy
clover, rye, red top and various other
grasses and grains, also specimens Of
potatoes, beets, carrots, turnips, toma-
toes and various other garden vegeta-
bles, also apples, cherries, plumbs and
other fruits, all grown without irriga-
ton and from farms and gardens in the |
immediate vicinity. You are at first
of the impression that these specimens
are few particularly fine ones picked
out here and there and that they do
not fairly represent the agricultural and
horticultural capabilities of the country.
But if you 90 to the trouble of pro-
curing conveyance and driving about
the country you find that they are only |
a fair general average of crops in the
fields from which they were taken.
Corn here is not success as The alti-
tude is too great and the seasons are
not sufficiently long, nor sufficiently !
hot to mature 1t, but IN all other re-
spects the valley of the Cucharas has |
no superior, from an agricultural stand
point, anywhere.
Again, La Vcta has, and always will |
have, close at hand a country especially
attractive to tourists. 1t is Mt the foot
Of the Spanish Peaks, and of La yeta
Pass. one Of the wonders of the world |
in the way Of natural scenery. mol
matter how rapidly the country here
may develop, the Spanish Peaks and
the adjacent country will always be a |
wild country, and will always be, as it
is to-day, the home Of the deer, the /
bear, the mountain lion, the beaver and |
other animals which inhabit a wild